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STRETGHER FOR GARMENTS.

No. 245,361. Patented Aug. 9,1881.

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ELIZABETH EAVESTAFF, OF 36 UPPER BERKELEY. STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE,COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND.

STRETCHER FOR GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 245,361, dated August9, 1881.

Application filed January 8, 1881.

To all whom t't may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH EAVESTAFF, of 36 Upper Berkeley Street,Portman Square, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented acertain new and Improved Dress- Stand, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my invention is to provide a dress-stand which can bereadily expanded so as to adapt it to the shape of the human form, toenable dresses of different sizes to be accurately fitted to the shapewithout the necessity of personal attendance of a customer after acorrect measure is once taken.

The invention consists in the combination, with an ordinary dress-standmade in the form of the trunk of the human body, of an airtight envelopeor covering of flexible material, such as rubber, inclosing said stand,and an inlet pipe, tube, or nozzle for air to inflate said envelope orcovering. The stand is preferably provided with arms, which are alsoinclosed by hag-like portions attached'to the envelope or covering.

The accompanying drawing represents a side view of a stand embodyingmyinvention,

the envelope or covering being shown in sec-V tion.

A designates a dress-stand, made of wood or other suitable material inthe usual way, in the form of the trunk of a human figure, and supportedupon a standard or upright, B.

O designates arms, with which the stand is provided.

D designates an envelope or covering of any suitable flexible materialwhich is impervious to air--such, for instance, as rubber or rubbercloth-and which is secured about the neck a of the stand and also at thebottom, so as to render it air-tight. As clearly shown, the envelope orcovering is clamped between a flange, b, and the bottom of the stand A.The envelope or covering D is provided with bag-like (N0 model.)

portions D, which inclose the arms, and if it is composed of elasticmaterial, such as rubber, it will stretch sufficiently to adapt itselfto a larger dress than that for which it is originally designed.

E designates a pipe or tube which is provided with a cock, 0, andthrough which air may be forced to expand or inflate the envelope orcovering.

Any suitable air nozzle or inlet might be employed instead of the pipeE.

The manner of using the stand is as follows: The pattern of a dress ismade in the ordinary way by measurement, and then put upon the standbefore it is inflated. The envelope or covering is then inflated untilit exactly fits the pattern, by which means I obtain an ac-v curaterepresentation of the figure to be fitted.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. The combination,witha dress-stand made in the form of the trunk of ahuman body, of an air-tight envelope or covering of flexible materialinclosing the same, and an inlet pipe, tube, or nozzle for air toinflate said envelope or covering, substantially as and for the purposespecified. V 7

2. The combination,with a dress-stand made in the form of the trunk of ahuman body and having arms, of an air-tight envelope or covering offlexible material inclosing said stand, and having attached bags forreceiving the arms of the stand, and an inlet pipe, tube, or nozzle forair to inflate said envelope or covering, substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

ELIZABETH EAVESTAFF.

Witnesses:

G. ELLIsoN GOLLETTE,

23 Lincolns Inn Fields, Soliciior. GEO. W. GOLLETTE,

23 Lincolns Inn Fields.

